We challenge you to visit them all, not forgetting stopping off to hear music in Chandos Road South, and having tea and cake all over Chorlton!

Entry is by programme; each programme (@£5) admits one adult (or child over 12) to all the open garden sites. Accompanied under-13s go free.

Programmes are on sale now during normal opening hours at:

Chorlton Bookshop, Wilbraham Road;

Creative Recycling, Beech Road;

Blossom Flowers, Manchester Road; and

Chorlton Nursery, Vicars Road.

On Sunday, programmes can be bought from Creative Recycling and Chorlton Nursery. Alternatively, you can buy them from an Open Garden if you see one on your way (Open Gardens will display our poster and have balloons at the entrance). Finally, we will be selling programmes outside the Unicorn on Sunday morning – and you can take the opportunity to visit the Unicorn’s marvellous roof garden.

Here are the details for anyone wanting to get programmes by post: you can send cash or a cheque made out to ‘Freedom from Torture’, to Merryn Cooke, 15 Totnes Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 8XF enclosing an A5 stamped addressed envelope.

Programmes are now ready, and on sale at the usual venues in Chorlton (Bookshop, Blossom Flowers, Creative Recycling and Chorlton Plant Nursery).

Yes. The details are available only in the programme, to ensure people buy a programme to visit the gardens. The programmes are now on sale at Blossom, Chorlton Book Shop, Creative Recycling on Beech Road, and Chorlton Nursery, as well as the next two sundays outside the Unicorn.

Anyone wanting to get programmes by post can send cash or a cheque made out to ‘Freedom from Torture’ to Merryn Cooke, 15 Totnes Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 8XF enclosing an A5 stamped addressed envelope. Programmes are ready and on sale at the usual venues in Chorlton (Bookshop, Blossom Flowers, Creative Recycling and Chorlton Plant Nursery) Programmes cost £5 each and admit one person.

Hi, visited your open gardens last year, quite by chance, as we were passing through the area. This year it’s in our diary and we plan to come over from Prestwich to get more ideas for our own garden. Please send details of where I can
Send a cheque for programmes.

Anyone wanting to get programmes by post can send cash or a cheque made out to ‘Freedom from Torture’ to Merryn Cooke, 15 Totnes Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 8XF enclosing an A5 stamped addressed envelope. Programmes are ready and on sale at the usual venues in Chorlton (Bookshop, Blossom Flowers, Creative Recycling and Chorlton Plant Nursery) Programmes cost £5 each and admit one person.

Hi, we visited the Chorlton Open Gardens for the first time, last year, and we were spellbound. It was an amazing day and we intend to make a return visit in 2016. Please will you let me know the address to forward a SAE and cheque as we live quite a distance away. Thanks.

HOW WE STARTED

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a southern suburb of Manchester.

The first Chorlton Open Gardens event was held in June 2011 in aid of the charity ‘Freedom from Torture’ (formerly the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture).
Twenty-nine sites, including gardens and yards, allotments, a school garden, local plant nursery, and grocery roof garden were open to the public. A thousand programmes were sold by four local businesses and volunteers.

The feedback was very positive and people enjoyed the communal atmosphere, the variety of garden spaces, refreshments, and learning more about garden design, flowers and vegetables that can be grown locally.

Use this form to send offers of help, general enquiries about the Open Gardens Day, or requests for information about your local Freedom from Torture group.